SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



and Queen Bess for the Cesarewitch) and a different 

 result ensue by the substitution of Fordham. In 

 fact, by the conspicuous absence of abih'ty in the 

 American riders Mr. Ten Broeck was eager for the 

 services of Enghshmen. So it comes to this : that 

 in the course of fifty years — that magnificent half- 

 century of progress the historians delight to dwell 

 upon — our English jockeys have so misused their 

 opportunities that instead of American owners look- 

 ing for English riders, English owners are scouring 

 the States for American jockeys, whose countrymen 

 rarely give patronage to ours. If this is pleasing 

 to our so-called insular pride that same must be a 

 very funny quantity. 



When the causes of a disease are on examination 

 apparent, the proper treatment, if the case be not 

 too far gone, should eflect a return to health. 

 The present disease of decay in English jockey dom 

 is of desperate character, and necessarily demands a 

 desperate remedy. You do not cure peritonitis by 

 outward application of a semi-warm bandage. You 

 require a boiling hot flannel saturated with turps. 

 And, similarly, for the jockey disease only a drastic 

 remedy will sufl&ce. If the only remedy be held to be 

 too drastic, matters, so far as we are concerned, will 

 end rather than mend, with the result, possibly, that 

 the English boys will be reduced to " strapping " the 



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